in today's video for Alpha Universe I'm going to show you how you could take
studio portraits using LED lighting
welcome back to Alpha Universe my name is Miguel Quiles I'm here in the studio today with
JC Stewart great actor and model here in Orlando Florida we'll have his uh information
in the description below but what I want to do today is to show you how easy it is to take
professional looking headshots in a studio environment if you're using LED lighting so let's
talk about the setup first things first for our lights I'm actually using a Rhodolite Titan that
is being softened or diffused by a softbox this is probably like a two by three ish size softbox
and that gives you like a really nice soft light
which is very important when you're taking studio headshots
for our hair slash rim light I actually have two rhodolite leds these are the Anova pro 2.
these LED lights can be any type of light so as I'm telling you the the types of lights I'm using
it's not that you have to use those exact ones the key is that you want to make sure that they're
quality LED's because if you're using inexpensive LED's it might shift the color of the skin tones
which we don't want fortunately with these LED's they look great so that's the lighting we've got
silver reflectors below they're providing a little bit of fill they're also giving JC
some really wicked catch lights so if you look at the bottom catch light in the eye they look
unbelievable it looks amazing with that being said let's talk about our camera and our lens setup so
for these headshots I'm using the Sony Alpha One and i have it paired up with one of my favorite
lenses for shooting headshots which is the 135m F/1.8 G master lens really great lens
really good for compressing the face for this style of headshot it just is very flattering
camera settings are really easy because you have the electronic viewfinder and because you have
that what you see is what you get which is a great feature with mirrorless cameras I could actually
see what the exposure is going to be before I take the photograph so the exposure that looks
great for me is F/ 6.3 1 160th of a second ISO 400 I have the white balance set to auto white balance
you could in theory because these are raw and because all of these lights right now
are set to 5600 kelvin you could dial that in as a custom white balance but honestly when you're
shooting raw totally okay for you to use auto white balance if you don't mind doing a little
bit of work in the end so with those settings dialed in let's go ahead and start shooting
so that is how you take professional studio portraits using LE lights it's really simple
if you have any questions at all about the setup settings whatever the case might be leave them in
the comments section below while you're there be sure to subscribe to the Alpha Universe YouTube
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got a lot of great work on his social media so be sure to show some love anyway I'm sure you
probably want to learn more about photography about shooting portraits and this video that
you see here on the screen I hand picked just for you go check it out and I will see you there